Construction Information Management: A Detailed Analysis

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LO1........................................................................................................................................................3
TASK1.................................................................................................................................................3
a)........................................................................................................................................................3
b).......................................................................................................................................................5
c) ...................................................................................................................................................6
LO2........................................................................................................................................................7
Task 2.................................................................................................................................................7
a)........................................................................................................................................................7
(b)......................................................................................................................................................8
(c).....................................................................................................................................................10
LO3......................................................................................................................................................11
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................11
(a)....................................................................................................................................................11
(b)....................................................................................................................................................12
(c).....................................................................................................................................................12
LO4......................................................................................................................................................13
Task 4...............................................................................................................................................13
(a)....................................................................................................................................................13
(b)....................................................................................................................................................13
(c).....................................................................................................................................................14

LO1
TASK1
a)
Construction information: -
Construction information is defined as the specifications that are developed by a team of
engineers, the financial consultant, the architects and other as per the project’s requirement.
This information helps in coordinating the team and move forward with the work and without
which it is not possible to start and end the construction work. the construction information
involves the processes involved in the construction, design of the floor plan, the raw material
used, equipment for construction work and the financial structure of cost associated with it.
It helps workers to cope up with work in progress and to make their next move. ( Kahle, al.,
2017)
There is many construction information involved in the project amongst which few are given
below: -
1) The process like roofing, utilities, excavation, whether barriers, foundation, and
plumbing are involved in the project.
2) List of the people responsible for a particular work such as agents, engineers,
architect, surveyor, financial planner manager, etc. so that whoever has a query
regarding any work can reach to the person in charge directly.
3) Equipment used for the processing is a bulldozer, loaders, dump trucks, motor
graders, excavator, etc.
4) The material used such as: -
1) Mud bricks
2) Cement
3) Thermal protection
4) Moisture protection layer
5) Electrical wiring
6) Circuit breaker
7) Marble
8) Wood finishing
9) Furnishing
10) Elevator

11) Steel farming
12) Earth blocks
13) Concrete
14) Switches
15) Gypsum
16) Plaster
17) Windows and doors
18) Plastics
19) Metal fabrication
20) Security system
21) Decorative metals
22) Telephone cables
(Akbar, 2019)
There are mainly three major construction specifications: -
1) Performance specification
2) Prescriptive specification
3) Proprietary specification
Performance specification: - it involves the efficiency of the performance at the time of
installation. It focusses of the outcome of the process and the model that is chosen for the
working of processes.
It tells about the requirements that are needed for the processing of installations. It is result
oriented and focuses on project performance. The person having the knowledge of a
particular work provides instructions to the person in need of that process. For example,
architect directs the contractor about the required thing in the construction project and which
path must be followed for the efficient working.
Prescriptive specification: - this type of specification has details of all material used in the
working of processes.
It involves specifications like: -
1) Required product
2) General provision
3) Procedure of execution

Proprietary specification: - product specification is associated with these kinds of
specifications used as per the requirements. Using it depends on the information requirements
of a section for an action which includes project and the process cost. (Bédard and Boton,
2018)
b)
Construction information collected for the project is: -
1) Construction schedule: -it helps in maintaining the work and complete in the
estimated. Also, it tells about what process to be encountered next.
2) Bill of quantities: - BOQ tells about the materials required throughout the Entire
process with their costs included to reflect the financial model of the project and the
budge can be set account.
3) Building modelling information: -it is responsible for deciding how the working of
the construction process. It analyses the building design and tells the strength of the
building. And suggest the best possible alternative for the design.
4) Contract for Construction: - the work is given to different teams as per the ability to
handle the work. for example, the location determination is given to the geotechnical
engineer and a financial consultant decides with the engineers to make a number of
pillars engineers, compositions of cement, the designing of the building is given to the
architect, etc.
5) Program contractor: -it takes instructions for the engineers and the financial
advisors and passes it to the workers accordingly to avoid complexity.
6) Design program: - Designing of structure is determined in this phase where it should
make the best possible design use certain considerations and the client's requirements
provide the details of how the structure will look and what will be included in the
building of the structure. The designer should keep in mind the physical and the
theoretical aspects of building designing.
7) Consultant: -the team of consultants is responsible for the programs included in the
project for the motivation purpose of the workers and others for better result.
8) Request for the information: -for the proper supply chain of the materials there
should be a proper information request list to be provided for the fulfilment of
construction processes.

9) Schedule of Drawing: -It consists of list of drawings as a management work plan. A
number of drawings, project name, drawing format, drawing purpose and the
additional notes are included in it.
10) Tender work program work: -It uses tender stages information of the project to
proceed with work. (Spence and Kultermann, 2016)
c)
There are several different information used for a different purpose are as follows: -
1) Bill of quantities: -BOQ contains the list of information regarding work, quantities,
prices, material type, dimensions and other details that can be used by the contractor
to work on it and make the exact build as in the drawing. Having information such as
materials like bamboo, cement, nuts, and bolts quantities, and pillars, wooden
flooring, wooden window.
2) Schedule of work: -SOW has the instructions that need to be followed by the help of
which discipline in work is maintained and the processes are optimized.
3) Design schedule: -the floor plan which is to be kept in mind while beginning with the
work and the efficiency is maintained.
4) Contracts for Construction: - consists of the information regarding the duty of every
individual that can use their skill set to improve work efficiency and make sure that
there is no disturbance in the work of each other.

LO2
Task 2
a)

(b)
SR.N
o
Description Number of
items
Cost / Unit Total
1 Windows Wood with bottom 18 $6.13 $108.234
2 Door’s Wood with bottom 14 $6.44 $90.16
3 Windows and Door’s Wood
with side bottoms
9 $6.8 $61.2
4 Pillars of Wood 36 $6.06 $218.19
5 Roof bottom of Wood 56 $6.13 $343.28
6 Wall of Wooden with standing
bottom
36 $6.2 $223.2
7 Wall of Wooden with side
bottom
36 $6.23 $224.28
8 Wall stand of Wood 6 $5.11 $30.66
9 Wood with side bottoms 19 $6.4 $121.6
10 Plain Bottoms of Wood 41 $6.13 $251.33
Total wood cost $1672.134
SR.N
o
Description Number
of items
Cost / Unit Total Cost
1 Bags full of cement 160 $6.54 $1046
2 Bamboo .( per p 45) 160 $0.73 $116.8
3 Steel roof. (Per b 4000). 20 $65.46 $1309.2
4 Nuts and bolts for upper bottom.
(per p 70 )
100 $1.14 $114
5 Nuts and bolts for down pillars .
(pp 70 )
50 $1.14 $57
6 Gajolx pin (per kg.80) 40 $1.30 $52
7 Ten tractors stones (per tractor
45000)
15 $73.65 $1104.75
8 Ten small size of sand stones 17 $73.65 $1252.05

45000
9 Seven tractors sand- ( per tractor.
2500)
10 $40.91 $409.1
10 Rod for ground foundation. (per kg
48)- 2400
50 $0.78 $39
21 Window & door $20.46
Total non-wood material cost $4415.61
Sr.no Cost of Labors Number of items Total Cost
22 Cost of Concrete engineer with
labor
Labour $800.16
23 Cost of Wooden engineer labour $870.23
Total Cost of labours $1670.39
Sr.no Misc. Unit Costs Numbers of
items
Cost /Units Total Cost
24 Toilet &
bathroom
2.0 $1050 $2100
27 Piping 1.0 $560 $560
Total Cost $2660
Additional bills: -
Sr.no Misc. Unit Costs Numbers of
items
Cost / Units Total Cost
25 Water tank 1 $350 $350
26 Water pump and
motor
1 $300 $300
Total Cost $650
Project Total Cost (10418.134 * 5 Storey) + 650 =
52740.67
(De Wolf, Yang, Cox, Charlson, Hattan, and Ochsendorf, 2016)

(c)
Schedule of work: - It is the working schedules list that consists of instructions like the time
involved in each process; people require to complete a particular task and other. It is taken as
a standard at work is done accordingly. It is similar to the BOQ. A bill of quantities have the
details of the material with pricing in a similar way the table contains the stepwise processes
that are to be followed in order to complete the work with the optimized method and increase
the efficiency of the work. (Carroll, 2014)

LO3
Task 3
(a)
Lift area Size = 30’-4 3/8” to 37’-6 7/16"
Director’s room Size = 49’-10 1/16” to 66’-2”
Conference room Size = 54’-0 9/16” to 80’-7 9/16”
Office Room 1, 2 Size = 74’ -7 1/16” to 35’ -5 1/16”
Office Room 3 Size = 67’ - 7 3/16” to 84’ - 2 3/4"
Cubical area Size = 94’- 6 3/8” to 32’-11 13/16”
Door Length = 28’-7 7/8”
Floor area Size =282’-0 5/8” to 252’- 10”
Reception area Size = 24’-2 7/8” to 95’-8 5/16”

(b)
The clashes and errors in the construction drawing are as follows: -
1) There are a smaller number of cubical therefore employees don’t have their semi-
personal space to do their work without disturbance.
2) The office is smaller in size as compared to the director’s office.
3) More area is seeming to be wastage and can be utilized to make the building more
attractive for inside.
4) The conference room should be the quietest room amongst all but is attached to the
wall, therefore, the disturbance happening outside will affect the conference. To avoid
this the wall should be covered with soundproof materials on both sides.
(Pärn Edwards and Sing, 2018)
(c)
Discrepancies and errors in the information provided of the construction: -
1) Section changing abruptly will decrease the life of the section and may result in
damage to the structure.
2) Design is not up to the mark.
3) Quality of materials used is too low.
4) There are no sufficient movements observed in the joints.
5) Result of creep effect.
6) Pipes and column develop shear stress that can be harmful to the structure.
7) Various constructional errors are seen.
(Ismail and Yusof, 2018)